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Bio:

Monograph:

Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918. Under review at Harvard University Press.

Peer-reviewed articles:

"From War Pedagogy to Reform Pedagogy: Education and Youth Reform before 1914 and the Mobilization for War in Germany." Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child:" Child-Rearing and Education in the United States and Central Europe in the 20th Century. Ed. Dirk Schumann. New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming.

"Why Did German Youth Become Fascists? Nationalist Males Born 1900 to 1908 in War and Revolution," Social History 31 (2006): 337-58.

"Models for Young Nationalists and Militarists: Youth Literature in the First World War," German Studies Review 27 (2004): 575-94.

"Youth and Adolescence." The Encyclopedia of European Social History. Ed. Peter Stearns. New York: Scribner’s, 2001. (7,500 words)

Undergraduate and graduate courses

The Weimar Republic: A graduate course

Nineteenth-Century German Thought: An upper-level lecture and discussion survey course.

Nazi Germany: An upper-level lecture and discussion course.

Modern Germany: An upper-level lecture and discussion survey course.

The Holocaust: A senior and graduate discussion seminar.

Western Civilization I: From the Invention of Writing to the Reformation: A core introductory lecture course with 270 students.

Western Civilization II: From the Scientific Revolution to the Present: Second part of above course.

Modern European Historiography: A graduate seminar, team-taught with five other instructors.

Weimar and Nazi Germany: A senior discussion seminar.

Nineteenth Century Europe: Liberalism and Its Critics: An upper-level lecture and discussion survey course.

Western Traditions: The Modern World: A core introductory interdisciplinary humanities course emphasizing critical reading of key texts in literature, philosophy, and the sciences. Led discussion sections.

The German Conception of History: Philosophy and Historiography. An upper level intellectual history course. Taught in German.

Childhood and Adolescence in Europe and North America: A first year writing seminar.